Introducing the 2010 Megalist: All the Best Books of the Year in One Spreadsheet « Blogging for a Good Book. For the third year, I have been compiling the results of all of the major “best books of the year” lists into an Excel spreadsheet.
So far, for 2010, I’ve compiled about 50 of the most prominent lists and book awards, with at least that many more still to come. Check back here at Blogging for a Good Book, and also on the Book Group Buzz blog at Booklist for regular updates until the compilation is finished. The megalist can be found here. It is divided into the categories “General Fiction,” “Mysteries and Thrillers,” “Speculative Fiction,” “Historical Fiction,” “Young Adult Fiction,” “Poetry,” “Graphic Novels,” “Narrative Nonfiction,” “Biographies & Memoirs,” and “How-To, Art, Cooking, Home and Garden, and other Instructional Nonfiction.” My definition of these categories tends to be broad, so if you don’t find a title in one spot, try another category. Blogging for a Good Book. Reader Mail: Unemployment in Libraryland. I got an email from a reader.
I will quote it in its entirety. Instead of addressing issues such as library videos and the views of a contrarian librarian your fellow librarian blogger colleagues like to ridicule, please the address the issue of the high unemployment rate among librarians and recently graduated MLIS students . Unemployment is the elephant in the room in the library world while the unimportant issues as the ones I mentioned get the most attention. It is librarians like you who are “telling us nothing”. First, there’s a very simple explanation as to why library videos and a contrarian librarian get more blog space as opposed to the the issue of high unemployment within the profession: the former is a bit more interesting than the latter.
Introducing the 2010 Megalist: All the Best Books of the Year in One Spreadsheet « Blogging for a Good Book.